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GitLab is much more powerful git repository manager than the previously described SCM-Manager. Furthermore it has its own CI environment, issue tracking, code review and wiki. At this time I show you GitLab installation process on Ubuntu Server and the first steps.

Installation

In our case(Ubuntu Server) select the latest Ubuntu package. When I was written this tutorial, the installation instruction contains two steps:

Install GitLab dependencies

GitLab installation

Important! For this tutorial purposes change default GitLab HTTP port to 9093. The default GitLab port is 80. We are going to install few more tools, so to avoid conflicts, we will change every default ports configuration.

Install GitLab dependencies

Run below command to install GitLab dependencies (you don’t have to install postfix server if you don’t need)